Turkish police continue to detain people for singing Kurdish songs
Turkish police have detained five people for singing Kurdish-language songs at a wedding in the central province of Osmaniye, the Yeni Yaşam news website reported on...
Turkish police chief dies by suicide after being rejected at overseas job interview despite...
A Turkish police chief died by suicide in Ankara after being rejected for an overseas assignment despite ranking first in a written exam, prompting...
1,345 arrested in first 10 months of 2025 as Turkey’s crackdown on Gülen movement...
Turkish authorities arrested 1,395 people in the first 10 months of 2025 as part of an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement, Interior...
Turkish comedian faces up to 3 years in prison over joke about Ottoman sultan
Turkish prosecutors have filed an indictment seeking up to three years in prison for stand-up comedian Tuba Ulu over a joke she made about...
Turks file 14,000 asylum applications in Germany in first 5 months of 2024
Turkish nationals have lodged a total of 13,741 first-time asylum applications and 710 repeat applications in Germany, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Friday,...
Jailed İstanbul mayor indicted in ‘political espionage’ case
Turkish prosecutors have filed an indictment accusing jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and three others of “political espionage,” opening a public case that could...
We face threats, prosecution for reporting on abuses in prisons: human rights lawyer
Nagehan Avçil, a human rights lawyer from the Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD), said in an interview that lawyers face arrest and prosecution...
8 rights groups call for release of critically ill Kurdish prisoner
Eight Turkish human rights groups on Wednesday called for the immediate release of a critically ill 70-year-old prisoner, warning that Turkey’s refusal to suspend...
Turkish authorities jail woman with 6-month-old son amid escalating crackdown on Gülen movement
A Turkish woman previously sentenced to almost seven years in prison over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement has been jailed along with...
Turkish journalist jailed after reporting on extortion scheme involving local officials using Erdoğan’s name
A Turkish journalist was arrested after publishing articles alleging that officials in the central province of Nevşehir invoked the names of President Recep Tayyip...
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